A.
AUTHORITY
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BOROUGH
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COMBINED SEWER
COMMUNITY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
DEPARTMENT
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
GARBAGE
HOLDING TANK
(1)
(2)
(3)
HOLDING TANK CLEANER
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
LOT
PERSON
pH
POLLUTION
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC SEWERAGE SYSTEM
SEWAGE
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
SEWERAGE SERVICES
STORM SEWER
STREET COMMISSIONER
SUBDIVISION
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
In this Part 1, the following words shall have the meanings hereby ascribed thereto, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
The Municipal Authority of the Borough of Derry.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
The Borough of Derry.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building
wall.
Piping carrying liquid wastes from a building to the treatment
tank or holding tank, or to the lateral at the curbline or property
line, as the case may be.
A sewer receiving both surface runoff and sewage.
Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, for the
collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such
sewage or industrial wastes serving three or more individual lots.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
A person or agency appointed by the Borough to perform inspections
and issue permits in connection with individual sewage disposal systems
and community sewerage systems.
The solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing
of food, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
A watertight receptacle which receives and retains sewage
and is designed and constructed to facilitate ultimate disposal of
the sewage at another site. Holding tanks include, but are not limited
to, the following:
CHEMICAL TOILETA toilet using chemicals that discharge to a holding tank.
RETENTION TANKA holding tank to which sewage is conveyed by a water-carrying system.
PRIVYA holding tank designed to receive sewage where water under pressure is not available.
A Municipal Authority or person, including a holding tank
owner, who removes the contents of a holding tank for purposes of
disposing of the sewage at another site.
A single system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving
one or two lots and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or
in part into the soil of the property or into any waters of the commonwealth.
Any liquid, gaseous, radioactive, solid or other substance,
not sewage, resulting from any manufacturing or industry, or from
any establishment, as herein defined, and mine drainage, silt, coal
mine solids, rock debris, dirt and clay from coal mines, coal collieries,
breakers or other coal-processing operations. "Industrial waste" shall
include all such substances, whether or not generally characterized
as waste.
A part of a subdivision or parcel of land used as a building
site or intended to be used for building purposes, whether immediate
or future, which would not be further subdivided.
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, or
imposing a fine or imprisonment, or both, the term "person" shall
include the members of an association and the officers of a corporation.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Contamination of any waters of the commonwealth such as will
create or is likely to create a nuisance or to render such waters
harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare,
or to domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational,
or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals,
birds, fish or other aquatic life, including but not limited to such
contamination by alteration of the physical, chemical or biological
properties of such waters, or change in temperature, taste, color
or odor thereof, or the discharge of any liquid, gaseous, radioactive,
solid or other substances into such waters. The Sanitary Water Board
shall determine when a discharge constitutes pollution, as herein
defined, and shall establish standards whereby and wherefrom it can
be determined and ascertained whether any such discharge does or does
not constitute pollution as herein defined.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
The sewer system and the treatment facility owned, operated,
or maintained by the Authority approved by the Department under a
permit issued pursuant to the Clean Streams Law.[1]
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings
or animals, and noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or
inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to
the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
A community sewerage system using a method of sewage disposal
other than renovation in a subsurface absorption area or retention
in a holding tank.
A sewer which carries storm and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes.
The Street Commissioner of the Borough of Derry, or his authorized
representative, deputy or agent.
The division of a single tract or other parcel of land or
a part thereof, into three or more lots, and shall also include changes
in street lines or lot lines.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq.
Nothing in this Part 1 shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any court, or any rights acquired or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any ordinance hereby repealed; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Part 1.
Where any provision of this Part 1 is found to be in conflict with a provision of any other ordinance of the Borough, statute of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or with any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, the provision which establishes the higher standard for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of the Borough shall prevail.
